Athlete Quotes - Page 28

• There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

  Ted Simmons

  Success, Sports, Greed

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• Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

  Bill Bradley

  Success, Sports, Years

  Bill Bradley (2009). “Life on the Run”, p.241, Transaction Publishers

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• You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

  Jim Bouton

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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• To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.

  Red Auerbach

  Success, Sports, Integrity

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• Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

  Nancy Lopez

  Success, Sports, Pride

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• When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

  Bill Bradley

  Success, Sports, Games

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• The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.

  Dick Vitale

  Basketball, Sports, Team

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• Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.

  Brian Owen

  Success, Sports, Sleep

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• Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.

  Jack Kemp

  Success, Sports, Team

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• I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way, and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me.

  Althea Gibson

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

  Rudy Tomjanovich

  Basketball, Sports, Motivation

  Rudy Tomjanovich (1997). “A Rocket at Heart: My Life and My Team”

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• The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.

  Bob Costas

  Success, Sports, Community

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• Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Inspiration, Kids

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• So much of becoming a good athlete involves bringing other things to the table, other than physical skills. It involves intelligence, it involves many of the things that you learn during the process of being educated. How to analyze, how to assess, how to equate, how to reason.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Skills, Tables

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

  Lynn Davies

  Sports, Live Your Life, Way

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• Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Player, Today

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• The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Dream, Games

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• What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Caring, Cycling

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• I'm a firm believer in quiet confidence. By that I mean knowing inwardly that you are good, and not exhibiting a boastful attitude outwardly. If an athlete doesn't believe in himself, no one else will.

  Dick Van Arsdale

  Leadership, Basketball, Attitude

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• The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.

  Cheng Fei

  Gymnastics, Giving, Way

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• Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Thinking, Giving

  "TalkAsia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2005.

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• I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Sports, Stress

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• I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I'm sure not fat. And I guarantee you, I'm a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don't want to play tennis with me. The don't want to play me in golf. They don't want to f***g run with me

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Running, Writing

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• If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Son, Drug

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• There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.

  Chris Brasher

  Soul, Olympics, Olympic Spirit

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